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  • building a PCIv'e decided to get my old PC and try and get the thing working again. not really sure what went wrong with it, and instead of buying a new one i pre…

    ... run at startup? cause the first thing I'd do on ... better than a 20Meg broadband line!

    Since the CPU ... % but my AMD clears itself faster then the Intel running less ...
    STeaM STeaM July 2009 Chit chat
  • New BUZZSAW+ Demo, No.2OK everybody, here's the latest demo of [I]Buzzsaw[/I]. This includes the title screen I wrote in Corfu with control selection, some new sprites and…

    ... with beginning of line and compute offset in line (efectively one OR ... , it needs to run even faster.

    [QUOTE=Fikee;378924 ... , but tables are definetively the first thing you should try, saving ...
    joefish joefish August 2009 Development
  • Tape loadersi understand how ROM tape loader works but i dont understand why it so 'complicated'. it measure time until two edges in signal appears. why it does…

    ... scheme. In fact, NRZ line codes are very good to ... The problem with a NRZ line code, either for tape or ... transformer which is the first thing you meet after ... need a more complex line code to make sure ... save routines quite a bit faster using the same range ...
    Winston Winston September 2009 Development
  • PS3 whaddyareckon?I am considering a PS3 at the new price - partly because of the blu-ray. As a 40 year old who only dabbles, I wonder if I should buy. The only quir…

    ... I got the 360 on line. I had to turn all ... the smae Livebox. They worked first time ;)[/QUOTE]

    NOPE ... anything, it's probably downloading faster now).

    My question ...
    Bermondsey Bob Bermondsey Bob September 2009 Chit chat
  • More colours II (Was: Most popular new features?)The suggested 4xCLUT multi-colour solution never took off.

    ... you have 32 attributes per line you only need to update ... the whole palette on every line. I don't know if ... . I'm sure there are faster methods:

    [code]
    xor a ; first register

    setreg:
    chev chev December 2009 Emulators
  • Jonathan Cauldwell writes.I also found this in me old archives, which was actually written by Jonathan Cauldwell. Again, typos and editorial tags included for authenticity ;-)…

    ... character around the screen. This first control loop rarely takes long ... routine works by moving a line of pixels to the screen ... time, moving to the next line down, counting how many lines ... round 16 times it is faster to have the contents of ...
    Shaun.Bebbington Shaun.Bebbington December 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • What Z80 development tools do you use? What books?Hi. I've been meaning to do it for over 25 years, but.. better late than never :) I'm starting to learn machine code and am trying to get a developme…

    ... have to use a command line makes me run a mile ... />
    Well, I wrote my first program.. prints the numbers 1 ... -Core processor could do it faster :rolleyes:

    Finally, when ...
    xyzzy xyzzy January 2010 Development
  • Tiscali (now Talk Talk)anyone else use tiscali? Is anyone else suffering from the broadband being a bit flakey, it's seems to come and go - you'll be fine for a few minute…

    ... went with Tiscali when I first moved to this property, ... response was standard check your line speed at different times ... else is now offering any faster speed - although (interestingly) freedom2surf ... could they offer much better line speeds I wonder?
    ...
    rwap rwap March 2010 Chit chat
  • My first platformerHi all! How do you do? Been lurking here for a while, but never had the courage to join the forum. :) The Speccy was my first computer, so I've alw…

    ... will have noticed this initialization line:

    [code]
    ... expect these are a lot faster since they don't need ... /> Next, creation of preshifted sprites. First the graphic data. You begin ... should be 0 for the first column, column1-column0 for ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous March 2010 Development
  • Who would you like to see in 10 and 11 Downing Street...?Okay, so the general election has been called and we've had the final PMQs and things are really kicking off now. Counting in the possibility of a Co…

    ... [b]-AL[/b] word comes first in the dictionary, and it ... front-line services *and* reducing the structural deficit 'further and faster' than ... won't affect their bottom line, whilst everyone else will pay ...
    Shaun.Bebbington Shaun.Bebbington April 2010 Chit chat
  • 'Hello World' in ASM ?Can someone show how to make the classic 'Hello World' print with ASM code ? I cant figure at this moment how to insert and handle strings with the s…

    ... re in the top scan-line of whichever character square you ... same character square, one scan-line down.

    There ... /> ; E = X-coordinate.

    ; First of all, convert DE into ... />
    ; "inc l" is slightly faster than "inc hl".
    ; We ...
    ajmoss ajmoss June 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Howto paint a squared zone of the screen ?You know what guys ? i begin to love this languaje. Cant understand why not put more effort on the 80's to learn it :( because it is really speedy. …

    ... fill the screen area
    ;first and last lines should be ... />
    call fillSolidLine ;filling top line
    call downHL ;and going ... again, for the last (bottom) line
    jp fillSolidLine ;the ... custom print, it will be faster than RST #10 - it ...
    Shiru Shiru June 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Game & Watch - Fire RC-04The original game. [IMG]http://i432.photobucket.com/albums/qq45/FrankT4/fire.jpg[/IMG] My speccy conversion progress. [IMG]http://i432.photobucket.c…

    ... the men stop respawning. The first man of the last 5x6 ... increase speed, it starts at faster speed.

    I have ... .

    Somewhere along the line, the men stopped being drawn ... as Game A but starts faster according to the manual I ...
    FrankT FrankT July 2010 New game ideas
  • Sorting an array...Hi Folks, Over the weekend I had a play with sorting algorithms - takes me back to my student days! :-o My first try was with the good old Bubble S…

    ... on line 200. But due to the most used lines first the ... . This might make the program faster!

    And yes, it ... fun to make code run faster (or in smaller memory, where ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP September 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Sorting an array...Hi Folks, Over the weekend I had a play with sorting algorithms - takes me back to my student days! :-o My first try was with the good old Bubble S…

    ... Comb Sort is marginally faster than the Shell Sort ... /> Always remember that fewer line numbers in an inner loop ... the FOR line is so a NEXT is faster than ... or it might be even faster.

    Does ... difference? Multiplication may be faster for the Z80 and ...
    JamesD JamesD October 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Sorting an array...Hi Folks, Over the weekend I had a play with sorting algorithms - takes me back to my student days! :-o My first try was with the good old Bubble S…

    ... tiny bit? Maybe for the first pass?
    [CODE]
    110 ...
    JamesD JamesD October 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • The Programmers Development System (PDS)Hi everybody, I recall this system has been mentioned several times on WoS forums. Last time was, I think, when those sources from Maz Spork (Buggy …

    ... ... As an example, the first byte of work RAM for ... one of four palettes. The first colour is known as ' ... after the last line on the display (line 241 for example ... data to update VRAM before line 0 of the next ... the Mega-Drive has a faster version of the Z80 CPU ...
    ASM ASM October 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Sorting an array...Hi Folks, Over the weekend I had a play with sorting algorithms - takes me back to my student days! :-o My first try was with the good old Bubble S…

    ... experiments on what code was faster, I just made the ... [/B] and the next line was the test goto. ... errors in the sort at first so the numbers I ... . Dragon BASIC is slightly faster than CoCo Extended Color Basic ... BTW, I *think* it's faster to test c before b ...
    JamesD JamesD October 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Learning Assembly LanguageHow easy would it be to learn assembly language for someone who has a decent grasp of Basic? I mean how long do you think it would take before I coul…

    ... /> call draw_sprites ; Print sprites for first time

    ; ... ; Use JP as it's faster than JR

    ; --------------------------------------------------------------------------


    ; Line Position Table (defined as data ...
    ASM ASM October 2010 Development
  • Learning Assembly LanguageHow easy would it be to learn assembly language for someone who has a decent grasp of Basic? I mean how long do you think it would take before I coul…

    ... /> call draw_sprites ; Print sprites for first time

    ; ... ; Use JP as it's faster than JR

    ; --------------------------------------------------------------------------


    ; Line Position Table (defined as data ...
    sekrets sekrets November 2010 Development
  • Learning Assembly LanguageHow easy would it be to learn assembly language for someone who has a decent grasp of Basic? I mean how long do you think it would take before I coul…

    ... /> call draw_sprites ; Print sprites for first time

    ; ... ; Use JP as it's faster than JR

    ; --------------------------------------------------------------------------


    ; Line Position Table (defined as data ...
    ASM ASM November 2010 Development
  • Calculating the address of a pixel?Hi Folks, Is there an easy/quick way of calculating the memory address of a pixel? So for example, if I wanted to "plot" pixel at screen coordinate…

    ... i'm talking about was first made in the '80s as ... these sprites would be drawn faster as well) or make enemy ... refreshed in two sequential frames, first behind the beam and then ... raster draws the screen one line at a time, so you ...
    TVzombie TVzombie February 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • k7x set up helpive waited over 3 weeks to finally win a bid on a specrum plus 1. now ive got it and sorry for sounding a noob im just wanting help setting up K7zx v…

    ... .

    In the text line, opposite =>WAV, you should ... default),
    and in the line below that, (near =>MP3 ... actually create a WAV file first, prior converting that in turn ... Mp3, even if its not faster)... I would not bother with ...
    kgmcneil kgmcneil February 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Smooth (vertical) scrolling on ZX SpectrumI was just thinking about this. You know, you have systems like Atari 2600 or Sega SG-1000 that have no hardware scroll, but they have games that sti…

    ... you know, that's the first gear only...
    This trick ... -writing the attributes on each line of the screen.

    faster, but not as smooth. Scrolling ...
    joefish joefish February 2011 Games
  • Spectaculator Load/Save?Hi Any Spectaculator users here who can tell me if or how it is possible to save/merge/load programmes/code/data to HD rather than having to do a ful…

    ... /> SAVE "name"

    Add LINE n to auto run from ... line number n, the basic program ... loaded.

    SAVE "name" LINE 10

    Save blocks ... easier and faster to just save to .tap in the first place.
    FrankT FrankT March 2011 Emulators
  • Fast LogsAnyone know of a fast ln function I can steal? The ROM function seems to be hideously slow. I wrote a look-up table dirty and less accurate sin func…

    ... , and it goes about 6X faster.
    [/QUOTE]
    ...
    The faster and more accurate calculator routines ... make an intelligent first guess which speeds up ... it seven times faster than the Spectrum ... The Spectrum manages only line 20 while the TS-2068 ...
    Geoff Geoff April 2011 Development
  • Frank N SteinThis one > [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0001849[/url] Always seems to crash about level 7 (maybe a bit more) or so with an …

    [QUOTE=Jimmy;537723]MCoder translates GOSUB and RETURNs into native CALL ... is breaking out of a GOSUB.[/QUOTE]

    Hmmm, I ... implicit PUSH caused by the line "740C CD3775 CALL $7537". There ... 'll try the simple way first and if I end up ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny May 2011 Games
  • Proportional Print Routine...Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a good proportional printing routine for the ZX Spectrum? Ideally I am looking for something that prints with charact…

    ... of the screen. This is line 24 and what would be ... "HH:MM".

    The first issue relates to a wandering ... ) is reproduced in column 1, line 17! I have to start ... thought, just print some spaces first but this does not work ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman May 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Back to BASIC[U][B]Archaeology guide to programs compiled used MCODERII.d[/B][/U] After various people have been talking about "Frank'n'stein" I decided to finis…

    ... next line to examine will be LINE 230. This line ... contains a compound IF statement, as well as GOTO and GOSUB ... 199[/CODE]
    [B]GOSUB 1200[/B]
    [CODE ... a=b then the first HL assignment refers to ... br />
    [B]GOSUB[/B] statements are compiled into ...
    Jimmy Jimmy May 2011 Development
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